The info you provided looks good. Can't discover a bug in it. Could you post your XF86Config file so I can verify that it is ok?

Did you already try an "older" nvidia driver? It might that an older version fixes the problems (1.0-4xxx). The driver version itself doesn't really matter for TNT-cards as no new stuff for them is added.

Surley the options go in the device section?? and not the screen?? just a thought...lol

(from the nvidia Cnofig sample, still aplicable

Section "Device"
Identifier "NV AGP TwinView"
VendorName "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
# update this with the PCI id of your card. Consult the output
# of the 'lspci' command. The BusID is usually optional when
# only using one graphics card.
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

First it doesn't matter if you put the options in the screen or device section. Second the part after "*from my TV ONLY display setting...." is wrong. That part would be correct if you had a Twinview-capable (can output to two screens at the same time) card. All twinview related lines (twinview, twinvieworientation, secondmonitorhorizsync, secondmonitorvertrefresh and metamodes) need to be removed.

i know that, durr, but was tryin to help, i wont bother next time *like i said in my comment, is from the XF86Config file supplied by nvidia AND IT DOES MATTER its DEVICE OPTIONS not screen options, two seperate parts of the same file

I have the same problem, I cannot force TV out through the config without getting the error "Failed to read mapping of display devices to CRTCs".

This wouldnt be so bad if it werent for the fact that nvtv causes blue borders on the video overlay with my TNT. Cant someone from NVIDIA help him out with that problem?

(Oops the attached config had the connectedmonitor line commented out, this is the working config I use with nvtv ... when I uncomment the connectedmonitor OR the ignoredisplaydevices options I get the error.)